| Summary: | The starting point of the study is an interpretation of the novelette written by Pavel Vilikovský: Večne je zelený... / Everlastingly Green…. (published in 1989). Except of the revealing of the inner structure of the book the author tries to show connection with several stages of development in Slovak literature. The prose of Vilikovský was written in the first half of 70-tieth, about 15 years before its publishing, and a part of its semantic potential relates to that period of time. The book was also inspirational in a new literary situation after 1989. We could confront the reading and interpretation through operative probes of the history of literature with some other controversial configurations of the Slovak literary development (60-tieth – 70-tieth – 90-tieth). The study is a reflection of wide scale of genres appeared in the novelette of Vilikovský. They are united by ironic modality as direct intertextual ways-out of the publication. Historical events (affair of a colonel Redl) as well as their literary realisations (reportages of E. E. Kisch) are parts of the book. Vilikovský´s „transcription“ is not a polemic with some interpretations of character and stories flowing to us in the stream of historical events but he polemizes with the historicity as a principle and contemporary praxis. It is a drooped, ideologically transformed historicity of real socialism from the 70-tieth that had already lost its teleological vanishing point but still represents objective and also irrational principle in which name it is possible to manipulate with the destiny of people. The novelette is also a concrete reaction to revitalisation of historicity in the second half of 60-tieth representing in the literature by nationally oriented essayistic works of Vladimír Mináč. The study is just an experimental probe into several literary periods and configurations related with the book of Vilikovský in its meaning. Coming out from the analysis of the novelette Večne je zelený... (Everlastingly Green….) we can characterise the book as an example of flexibly transitive structure maintaining its semantic productiveness in various and sometimes even controversial receptive situations.
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